Test 9 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the…

Bruv, why did the bears leave their breakfast to cool in the first place?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bears · What happens: do, leave, cool · To what, where: breakfast, first place

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 1956 «English Fairy Tales, Jack and his Castle: Jack brings the castle home and meets his wife and son» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bears	det
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 breakfast	nmod:poss
9	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 cool	mark
11	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 leave	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	15 place	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 place	det
14	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 place	amod
15	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cool	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past				Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	leave	present	the bears	bears's breakfast			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breakfast=Theme
3	cool	to-infinitive	the bears not said here		the first place		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

for their breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 breakfast	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 breakfast	nmod:poss
3	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

because the porridge was too sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	6 sweet	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 porridge	det
3	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sweet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sweet	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 sweet	advmod
6	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the porridge					sweet property	tree rules

Option 3

so they could go to the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	4 go	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 go	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 go	aux
4	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	could	they			the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

so they would not burn their mouths

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	5 burn	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 burn	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burn	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 burn	advmod
5	burn	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouths	nmod:poss
7	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 burn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not burn	would	they	their mouths					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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